Thread by @Monaheart1229

Trump ripped up presidential records
"well into the latter stages of his presidency"
Which is unlawful when you're sitting in the Oval
Records management analysts taped them back together
J6 committee has them
No wonder he's so scared!
Thread
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…

2/"When [NARA] handed over a trove of documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the Trump White House records had been ripped up and then taped back together, according to three people familiar with the records.

3/"Trump was known inside the White House for his unusual and potentially unlawful habit of tearing presidential records into shreds and tossing them on the floor —

4/"creating a headache for records management analysts who meticulously used Scotch tape to piece together fragments of paper that were sometimes as small as confetti, as Politico reported in 2018.

5/"But despite the Presidential Records Act — which requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president’s official duties —

6/"the former president’s infrangible shredding practices apparently continued well into the latter stages of his presidency.

7/"[NARA] took the unusual step of confirming the habit, saying in a statement that records turned over from the Trump White House “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump."

8/"In its statement, [NARA] said that “White House records management officials during the Trump Administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records.

9/"These were turned over to the National Archives at the end of the Trump Administration, along with a number of torn-up records that had not been reconstructed by the White House.

10/"The Presidential Records Act requires that all records created by presidents be turned over to the National Archives at the end of their administrations.”

11/"It’s unclear what documents in the tranche delivered to the Jan. 6 committee were damaged. But legal records indicate that the documents over which Trump sought to assert privilege included presidential diaries, schedules, appointment information,

12/"handwritten notes concerning the events of Jan. 6 from White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, speeches, remarks, and more.

13/"Trump also sought to assert privilege over four pages from the records of presidential findings concerning the security of the 2020 election, four pages of a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity,

14/"three pages of talking points on alleged election irregularities and two pages of a draft text of a presidential speech for the Jan. 6, 2021, 'Save America March.'" ~excerpts WaPo